@@katorkwase That’s not the original. The song was originally by Billy Taylor as an instrumental, then lyrics were added, then Simone covered it. Her version is great, of course, but not the first. 🙂
I sat on a park bench one late afternoon in early 2022, crying painfully while listening to this song. I was crying because I knew that I would never really be free. A stranger came up to me and while he walked past, he told me: "It'll get better." Thank you for that, and I hope that you are right.
I thought so many people in this generation did not listen to the good songs of the old days. Well, if you are here listening to this song, that means you're the best thing that could ever happen to anyone in your life. I miss those days of the #lighthouse. I love you all listening to this song. 🤍🤍🤍
At the end of the day, there will only be a handful of songs that will ultimately shape you as a person, as a proper human being. For me, this masterpiece was always one of them and will forever remain so. God bless, Lighthouse Family :)
"(I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be) Free" I wish I knew how it would feel to be free I wish I could break all the chains holding me I wish I could say all the things that I should say Say 'em loud say 'em clear For the whole wide world to hear I wish I could share All the love that's in my heart Remove all the bars that keep us apart And I wish you could know how it is to be me Then you'd see and agree that every man should be free I wish I could be like a bird in the sky How sweet it would be if I found I could fly Well I'd soar to the sun and look down at the sea And I'd sing cos I know how it feels to be free I wish I knew how it would feel to be free I wish I could break all the chains holding me And I wish I could say all the things that I wanna say Say 'em loud say 'em clear For the whole wide world to hear Say 'em loud say 'em clear For the whole wide world to hear Say 'em loud say 'em clear For the whole wide world to hear One love one blood One life you've got to do what you should One life with each other Sisters, brothers One love but we're not the same We got to carry each other Carry each other One One One One One... I knew how it would feel to be free I knew how it would feel to be free
The video concept is so meaningful. There’s always someone who spreads bliss and serenity to other people. He is unknown but his mysterious presence will bring peace.
It's been so many years since this came out, nothing has changed on the surface - but I have and I know others have too, which proves to me that anyone can, so please do - change.
2021 and I'm still here listening and always will be. It's my birthday today and this is the only song that connects with me in such a deep way that I couldn't even explain (nostalgic feeling from listening to this song when I was a boy full of dreams and hope of changing the world, hope for humanity, hope to end suffering, hope for a better world for all of us to live in) and that's why I'm back here again.. always back, and always will be back still.
My three year old grandson has a genetic disease, he will never walk , talk, eat or drink food through his mouth, his brain will never realise more potential than it is now, all daughter wants from him is a smile, that would be a great milestone in her life. This is the song I'm sure he would be singing in his mind if it was possible, I always sing this song to him as if it is him singing it to me The song is so much about all people and their struggle through life mentally, emotionally and physically, the video says it all, people are not always what we see we hide things so well in our minds, instead of knowing how it feels to free them
The song just popped out of my mind, I haven't heard this in over 20 years (I'm 33 now) and I remember the last time listening to this was during my elementary years. Since I'm familiar with the band and its vocalist's distinct voice, I tried to search using the intro "I wish" and in just one attempt, I found the exact one. What a day to start by listening to this. #sundayfeels #musiclover #nostalgiaattack
I wish every comment I made would matter and be heard by the people who made this song. I wish the world could go back in time to when this group made songs. I wish the people who made these songs could be in charge
They played this at my late nephew's funeral. It was years before I could listen to it as it broke my heart when I heard it playing. I had to switch it off💔
Do you remember one of Light house family-High song become an advertising song ( American softdrink ) for few years in Indonesia. From that i am searching who sing the song, and nahhhh i found. Nice song
@@marcpope3031 I'm aware. I believe you've misunderstood. If you read carefully I've mentioned - Love Lighthouse Family the best among all the other cover versions I've heard
I remember listening to these songs with my dad as a kid especially this one, only now am I realising the meaning behind these songs, my dad sadly took his own life when I was 7 I really hope he is now free 💔
Yup I can relate ..hes also actually Obasanjo nephew and oshoffas (celestial church of christ founder ) relation .. I remember him walking into aso rock whenever he feels like it during OBjs tenure
My dad bought this album in 2000. Till now i still listen to their songs as if these their songs are still new. Mature songs though my friends laugh at me that why do i love old school songs. Old school songs pass good messages unlike this age lilwayne, nickiminaj etc singing nonsense. God bles
2019 and forever, this song is one of the reasons I keep visiting the UK. Thanks “ The Lighthouse Family “. Thanks to each and everyone of you, the listeners. Love connects us in such sweet togetherness.
Being that time, It's true, honour and heart felt, These words sang with your voice, Will ever hold a timeless truth, Every time, My heart and old soul, Love all, Always xxx
Of birds, and of butterflies, science says they can see colors we cannot. Those who have visited Heaven report having seen colors not seen on earth. Of all of God's creatures, the winged ones are the closest in form and function to the angels who stand in His presence and sing of His glory every day.
Last time I heard that song was twenty years ago, just realized that I remembered the whole lyrics, guess how much this song stuck with me. It's a masterpiece and with a most beautiful message.
2024 here, I wish I could break the chain that's holding my country Nigeria 🇳🇬
I'm here! One love from Australia! ❤✊🏿
Vamos ter fé 🇧🇷
This is deep 😢😢😢I love you
Amen amen
Eu
Who’s here in 2024. One of the most underrated song
It's a beautiful song
Agree with you mate
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2025 📌
Concordo com você, as vezes não dada o devido valor!!!
I agree with you, sometimes I don't give or owe value!!!
This was my Cancer Song...Today, 2 years after I started treatment I am happy to say...I am free!
God bless your are free
Smile...
Gold bless you :)
Cancer song ? 🤔🙄
@@albionmyl7735 shut your hole god bothererer
Who is listening to this masterpiece soundtrack in 2024? Amazing soundtrack from Lighthouse Family. 😊
It’s a tradition to listen to this masterpiece once in a while😊
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I love this song
I think songs like this should have 19billion views
Because the people that enjoy it are not of internet age ..
Yes 19billion vews👍👍👍
@@joannadana9878 Watch it multiple times
Who’s listening during the COVID-19 lockdown? The lyrics really do mean a lot during this time!
Tez1986 I do but I wanted to feel the nostalgia of when I heard it back in 2012.
@@noskillerhd1405 me :)
Definitely means a lot now during COVID-19 lockdown
Me too - Paraná - Brasil :(
Yes :) my sisters funeral song today 💔
One of the greatest songs of all time.
NO CAP!
Sigurado yan!
Totally agree
I absolutely agree without any doubt!
Korek
This song should be made the official World Anthem. The lyrics ring true today more than ever.
this guy is not a musician. he is a philosopher, a spirit who communicates with somebody inside of me
You just described a musician....
Listen to the original by Nina Simone, one of my dad’s favorite musicians. I cried listening to it.
@@katorkwase That’s not the original. The song was originally by Billy Taylor as an instrumental, then lyrics were added, then Simone covered it. Her version is great, of course, but not the first. 🙂
This song depicts the dynamics of what is going on across the world right now....God bless everyone!!!
I love this song!!!!!!!!!!! .... Should win a Grammy of some sorts
Proud of you , all Nigerians..
Alots tired together in this song..
Lifetime song...
Your religion tell much on these mystical lifetime lyrics
A perfect song for someone who is trying to break free from a painful addiction.
No sweet without sour. Das Tal hat auch seinen Wert. Greetings from Germany. Wish luck.
Or depression. Hold on bro.
or self doubt and limitation. Love life x
Or for someone who wants to commit suicide and be free from this world.
Same here bro, we shall overcome ✊🏽
The Lighthouse family is so unique, as they use a mix of calm instruments, relaxing lyrics and awesome natural voices. :) They're so calming!
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It's February 2023, and I still love this song! 🥲
This song is one of my best classic songs of all times.Well done,Tunde Baiyewu,aka, The Lighthouse Family, proudly Nigerian!
To anyone's reading this, may you have a wonderful day ahead, and ma you always be Free. I wish all your wishes come true, eventually.
Dito
I sat on a park bench one late afternoon in early 2022, crying painfully while listening to this song. I was crying because I knew that I would never really be free. A stranger came up to me and while he walked past, he told me: "It'll get better." Thank you for that, and I hope that you are right.
My situation 😢😢
I Grew Up with pains 😢🥺😭😭
Feeling so sad all through out.
believe in Jesus, he'll set you free from all the bondage of life
@Israel Solomon thank you so very much 😥🙏😇
It will and does❤...2024 xxxx
Wish To Have This Opportunity 😢😢😢😢 I Feel So Broken Ever since My Grandma, Childhood Friend and Cousin Passed away 😢😢😢😢
I thought so many people in this generation did not listen to the good songs of the old days.
Well, if you are here listening to this song, that means you're the best thing that could ever happen to anyone in your life.
I miss those days of the #lighthouse.
I love you all listening to this song.
🤍🤍🤍
At the end of the day, there will only be a handful of songs that will ultimately shape you as a person, as a proper human being. For me, this masterpiece was always one of them and will forever remain so. God bless, Lighthouse Family :)
Immer noch großartig ❤❤😊😊 Gutes Gefühl beim Hören ❤❤
22 years later and this song is still beautiful 🌹❤️
The 🇬🇧 created the most stunning and memorable music that are etched in our minds always ❤...2024 x
Not this song. It’s a decent enough cover but they didn’t create this one. This was created by Billy Taylor.🙂
I'm a legend listening to this masterpiece in 2023. Who else feels the same? ❤
I been looking for this song for a long time
"(I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be) Free"
I wish I knew how it would feel to be free
I wish I could break all the chains holding me
I wish I could say all the things that I should say
Say 'em loud say 'em clear
For the whole wide world to hear
I wish I could share
All the love that's in my heart
Remove all the bars that keep us apart
And I wish you could know how it is to be me
Then you'd see and agree that every man should be free
I wish I could be like a bird in the sky
How sweet it would be if I found I could fly
Well I'd soar to the sun and look down at the sea
And I'd sing cos I know how it feels to be free
I wish I knew how it would feel to be free
I wish I could break all the chains holding me
And I wish I could say all the things that I wanna say
Say 'em loud say 'em clear
For the whole wide world to hear
Say 'em loud say 'em clear
For the whole wide world to hear
Say 'em loud say 'em clear
For the whole wide world to hear
One love one blood
One life you've got to do what you should
One life with each other
Sisters, brothers
One love but we're not the same
We got to carry each other Carry each other
One One One One One...
I knew how it would feel to be free
I knew how it would feel to be free
Yes, you can
simple but very profound. Love this song ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
2021 this song is still awesome. His voice is so comforting and the lyrics are
Thank you 😊
Remove all the bars that holding me
The video concept is so meaningful. There’s always someone who spreads bliss and serenity to other people. He is unknown but his mysterious presence will bring peace.
So beautiful 😍😍💕❤️
Brasil - ✅Linda canção.
Who's listening during this Christmas??
I will never forget this song
It's been so many years since this came out, nothing has changed on the surface - but I have and I know others have too, which proves to me that anyone can, so please do - change.
2021 and I'm still here listening and always will be. It's my birthday today and this is the only song that connects with me in such a deep way that I couldn't even explain (nostalgic feeling from listening to this song when I was a boy full of dreams and hope of changing the world, hope for humanity, hope to end suffering, hope for a better world for all of us to live in) and that's why I'm back here again.. always back, and always will be back still.
Happy belated birthday man
Happy belated birthday
the same here my friend🙏❤️
happy birthday and wish you all the best
My three year old grandson has a genetic disease, he will never walk , talk, eat or drink food through his mouth, his brain will never realise more potential than it is now, all daughter wants from him is a smile, that would be a great milestone in her life.
This is the song I'm sure he would be singing in his mind if it was possible, I always sing this song to him as if it is him singing it to me
The song is so much about all people and their struggle through life mentally, emotionally and physically, the video says it all, people are not always what we see we hide things so well in our minds, instead of knowing how it feels to free them
His voice is what god give us for relax
This seems to be the oldest comment
Are you still around?
Hey,this seems to be the oldest comment
Are you still around?
@@folorunshovictor8166 Somehow, i do. I forgot to say that it was a quote from a magazine i read.
@@LaVitaNouvawow,glad you still around...🫂🖤
never gets old despite the new songs coming out these days
The song just popped out of my mind, I haven't heard this in over 20 years (I'm 33 now) and I remember the last time listening to this was during my elementary years. Since I'm familiar with the band and its vocalist's distinct voice, I tried to search using the intro "I wish" and in just one attempt, I found the exact one. What a day to start by listening to this. #sundayfeels #musiclover #nostalgiaattack
You are my age mate. Wow. I am 34 now
Are you me?? I’m listening to this song for the same reason as yours. I’m 31
I wish every comment I made would matter and be heard by the people who made this song. I wish the world could go back in time to when this group made songs. I wish the people who made these songs could be in charge
His voice is amazing it cures my depression
Cried listening to the amazing vocals. Powerful. .....
Many sang this song but this band sang it with the calm it deserves.
Tears dropping down from ma eyes. This song touches me deeply.
They played this at my late nephew's funeral. It was years before I could listen to it as it broke my heart when I heard it playing. I had to switch it off💔
This song helps me forget painful memories 🥺
Take me back to the 90s and the early 2000s.
The best time ever, i miss it so much 😢
I'm feeling emotional right now. My love for this great song😔😔😔
It’s my 2001 zeitgeist song.. Thank you x
This is best song i've ever heard
This song gets to me every bloody time.
It’s 2023! One of the best classic song I ever had💯🥳💕🇳🇬
Motorbillity advert brought me here.... I truly hope this beautiful song is re released xx
Forever a beautiful great song !
One song I go to when I feel chocked.
Bedanke mich für den Song 👍
Love this hes sings so beautiful ❤❤❤
I remember this song was a hit on the year 2001
Now 2023 this song never lost its magical sense masterpiece ✨️ 💜
I usually play this song during Martin Luther King's day. Very inspiring!
Saving money to buy this cassette album, what a time that was in 2001 as a young boy
Do you remember one of Light house family-High song become an advertising song ( American softdrink ) for few years in Indonesia. From that i am searching who sing the song, and nahhhh i found. Nice song
It worth the saving! The letter of this song is art!
I wish I knew how it would feel to be in the 90s again. This song brings tears to my eyes every time I listen to it.
I've watched many cover versions of this song but love Lighthouse Family the best... Tunde Baiyewu - has an awesome vocal tone!!
Proud of him.he is from my country ,Nigeria.
@@bolajiaiyegboyin3579 UP naija. Listening to this during the EndSars protests.
Hate to break it to you, The Lighthouse Family is a cover of Nina Simone.
@@marcpope3031 I'm aware. I believe you've misunderstood. If you read carefully I've mentioned - Love Lighthouse Family the best among all the other cover versions I've heard
@@MyronLF Yeah, I figured that after I wrote it but I thought I might get away with it since your comment is 4 years old. Guess not ;)
I remember listening to these songs with my dad as a kid especially this one, only now am I realising the meaning behind these songs, my dad sadly took his own life when I was 7 I really hope he is now free 💔
Oh no! Can't what you've gone through.
I'm sorry you lost him.
RIP
🥺 I am sorry for your loss. Can't even imagine what you have been through.
Y no me cansó de escucharla una y otra véz 🎵
come to think of it, one of this guys...Tunde to be precise is my countryman, even same tribe, wow! #legendary
Yup I can relate ..hes also actually Obasanjo nephew and oshoffas (celestial church of christ founder ) relation .. I remember him walking into aso rock whenever he feels like it during OBjs tenure
Babatunde
@@ladiodebiyi1930 not Obasanjo’s nephew but his stepson from Stella, she had him before marrying Obasanjo, may her soul Rest In Peace
@@felixprosper22 oh really ..cool
I learnt this song in junior school and recently re-discovered it for a choir audition, it means soooooo much to me, LOVE IT!
My dad bought this album in 2000. Till now i still listen to their songs as if these their songs are still new. Mature songs though my friends laugh at me that why do i love old school songs. Old school songs pass good messages unlike this age lilwayne, nickiminaj etc singing nonsense. God bles
U r on the right way...keep on it bro
Greatest song, Nina Simone
Life is all abuot a memory
This track make me remembered my brother I wish him many more years MUHAMMED RABIU
I didn't Appreciate how amazing this song was when I was little man would I love to turn back Time.
I love your song im 35 right now.. from philippines
One of the greatest song ever made
I have been looking for this song for long and finally found it.
My neighbor used to play the song when I was a kid.
2023
July 16 present year 2024 at 12:45 AM, old but gold 😊❤
2019 and forever, this song is one of the reasons I keep visiting the UK. Thanks “ The Lighthouse Family “.
Thanks to each and everyone of you, the listeners. Love connects us in such sweet togetherness.
Guess Facebook memories really serves a purpose, 10 years later here I am again😊
What a stunning song ❤
Nice! U2's "One". Perfect.
peaceful... I love this song, I remember my childhood...
To my daughter's, I wish i could be free and be with you both love you for eternity forever blessed ❤
It's January 2022 and this is the song that the world currently needed as an expression.
This is why I love music...
Love love this song. It covers my mind with tremendous memories of growing up in the 90s when my mum and sister were still alive. 😭😭😭
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I love this song koz it's gives people hope and a smile to remember the bandage have broken to
One of the limeless songs of all time….2019!
Amazing Song 💯
i really wanna know how it feel to be free.... sometimes i think i could only be free if i die, until i hear this music, i almost was in tears.....
Freedom does not come for free!! Xx
Happy New Year 2022 everyone.. Hope you all the best ! Greeting from Jakarta.
Love the song as a whole
Being that time,
It's true, honour and heart felt,
These words sang with your voice,
Will ever hold a timeless truth,
Every time, My heart and old soul,
Love all,
Always xxx
I LOVE MY CITY PRAGUE, AND THIS SONG IS SO FU*KING GREAT‼️🥲💞
2024 visited this timeless songs..
21 years on and it still bangs!
How sweet it would be a bird if I were in disguise , about 4 innuendos in one bar.... Nice 1 ❤
Of birds, and of butterflies, science says they can see colors we cannot. Those who have visited Heaven report having seen colors not seen on earth. Of all of God's creatures, the winged ones are the closest in form and function to the angels who stand in His presence and sing of His glory every day.
Without a doubt one of the best songs ever written. Thank you Lighthouse Family :)
A timeless classic, the lyrics have such a strong message and the melodies are beautiful!
The Lighthouse Family were a very special band!
I wish I could look into her eyes and say to her I wish this moment could last forever
Awesome Song Awesome Man
Last time I heard that song was twenty years ago, just realized that I remembered the whole lyrics, guess how much this song stuck with me. It's a masterpiece and with a most beautiful message.
That's exactly what is happening to me right now ❤😊
Every lyric is every sane human's prayer from the time we become men/women till time we die😢🙏👏
Fav! For a long time